Bear Shaman Leveling Guide

The Bear Shaman class in Age of Conan is as the name suggests a typical Shaman class with some melee capabilities as well as some decent heals. Its a well balanced class because of having both good dps and defensive skills, plus some other very neat tricks. The Bear Shaman excel especially well in group situations and in PvP.

For leveling you should stick to mostly offensive skills and spells. Your heals will hopefully be enough to keep you alive so the more offensive power you have the faster you will kill monsters and level up faster.

Leveling Advice

Starting out you might run into some problems as a Bear Shaman. On Tortage you might have a hard time, the Bear Shaman doesn’t really start to shine before their 20’s, and before that they are pretty underpowered with weak heals. Don’t worry though, in your mid 20’s things will get a lot easier.

Empowered renewal is a skill you should get used to using. It makes the next swing get a bonus to damage. Use Empowered renewal before the last swing in a combo (Shrewd Blow or Crush armor for the most damage). Empowered Renewal can even one shot mobs in some cases.

The Internal Bleed combo is also very powerful. It deals good damage but also a very good DoT that affects multiple targets.

By level 30 you gain some important core and PvP focused feats. Blood Fever is very nice to have and gives you a 20% increased damage buff. Grace of Nature, Rabies and Rune of Grounding is also very helpful, especially in PvP.

Remember that the Bear Shaman is not a tank. Always wait for the tank to get sufficient aggro before jumping into the fray.

Potions and food can be a huge help. Always keep a lot of food and stamina and health potions with you wherever you go. These potions are pretty cheap and will speed up leveling time.

Casting spells do not break combos, so remember to cast spells in between swings.

If you can find a Tempest of Set or a Priest of Mitra to level with, you can level a lot faster. These classes are already awesome at AOE leveling but with you as another healer you will be leveling at light speed.

Spirits

Blood Warrior – Damage buff to your primary heal over time skill.

Empowered Renewal – 50% damage increase chance to trigger renewal

Improved Spirit of the Bear – Improves your health buff

Aspect: Blood Fever – 20% more damage and 22% less healing (Very good for quick leveling as you do a lot more damage)